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by Ted Mooney
This month brought still more letters from universities,
'non-profit' (a-hem) groups and consultants, all working under grant
to write compilations of waste minimization methods for the plating
industry.
Nobody denies the importance of waste reduction. Still, in 1974
the plating industry was selected to be the first categorically
regulated industry. For fully 24 years our people have been eating,
drinking, and breathing waste reduction. And somebody thinks that
platers are not on top of this issue yet? After this being our first,
our only, priority for
24 years?!
Every other issue confronting plating shops has been relegated to
the back burner for a quarter of a century now, while countless
millions of tax dollars continue to be spent on hundreds upon
hundreds of duplicative waste reduction reports for the plating
industry--10 times as many reports as the most determined person
could ever hope to speed-read. Yet there they are, still at it with
our tax money.
Nothing would have been lost had funding for this been cut off at
least a decade ago. And no one can even guess what fabulous gains and
breakthroughs might have been made, had not virtually every person in
this industry been forced single file under the yoke and into these
tunnel-vision blinders for 24 years. Enough is enough.
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